YouTube – Being an Unperson: 000000000 this is… perhaps one of the most profound statements of institutionalization of our time.

the dreamlife of letters, Brian Kim Stefans:

Blogumentary: A Documentary About Blogs: —— completely available online…

Natural History Magazine — : It seemed unbelievable, but I never found a clear spot. In the week it took to cross the subtropical high, no matter what time of day I looked, plastic debris was floating everywhere: bottles, bottle caps, wrappers, fragments. Months later, after I discussed what I had seen with the oceanographer […]

Media @ LSE Group Weblog » Blog Archive » Dangerously overstating the significance of Web 2.0: While I am by any measure a heavy user of Web 2.0 technologies, the sunny optimism of this video and the absence of a wider social perspective on the phenomenon really irks me. The fact remains that according to […]

YouTube – Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us: Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us —— if you’ve not seen this video on web 2.0…. you probably should.

Researchers of the World: Unite to Support European Commission Open Access Policy: The European Commission, the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB) and the European Research Councils have each recently recommended adopting the policy of providing Open Access to research results. (Very similar recommendations are also being made by governmental research organisations in the United States, […]

Master Plan – About the power of Google: ——- google master plan… scary.

Money can’t buy you love, but it might buy you science: The Guardian online reports that the American Enterprise Institute, funded by a generous grant from Exxon and from the Mobil Oil Corporation, has begun offering $10,000 to scientists who are willing to write essays that call into question the findings on a recently released […]